Gwen POV

A few days later:

I walk down the halls, when I see Ken crying.

"Kenny! What's wrong?"I run over to him and embrace him.

"Mean...Girls...took my money...and pushed me to the ground...:("

"It's okay hon, I'm here."

"How about we walk together to Spanish class?" I take his hand and we walk off. After school I go with ken to the movies.

"Hey Gwen?"

"Yeah Ken?"

"Thank you!"

"Your welcome for the popcorn!" I giggled.

I walk him home and go to my house.

NEXT DAY

"Gwen, I have to go to military school."

"No! Why Ken?"

"My dad says I need to toughen up."

"Aww, but Ken..." I hug him.

"I feel like we should break things off until I get back from military school."

"But Ken..."

"Don't worry! When i get back I will be able to protect from anything!"

"Oh Ken!" I giggled and wiped some tears from my eyes.

"Bye...for now Gwen." He walks off.

I can't help it now, the tears are streaming. I can't let anyone see me like this! I run to the courtyard behind the tree until I calmed down

Nathaniel POV

I breathe in the crisp air. I like to study out here when its nice. I hear a stifled cry from behind the tree and I walk over there.

"Gwen?" I sit down next to the trembling girl.

"He left... Nathaniel, Ken left..." Gwen spoke in between sobs.

He left her?! That jerk! Why would he leave her? Didn't he know what he had?

"His...dad...sent him...to..military school...he wants to break things off...until he gets back." Gwen was crying hard now.

Break things off? That's GREAT! Now I can show Gwen... I looked at her.

"That's horrible." I say, wrapping my arm around her. Gwen leaned in closer to me her heading barely touching my chest. I felt my heart give a hard thump and my palms started to sweat. She was so close. I looked around to spot Castiel, who gave me two thumbs up. I glared at him. He seemed to get the message and took off.

"I'm sorry, this must be uncomfortable for you." Gwen started to pull away. I pulled her closer to me

"Um, no, c-can't we j-just stay l-like this for a b-bit?" I felt a blush rise to my cheeks.

"O-okay if you s-say so" She laid her head on my shoulder. My heart raced again.

We stayed there for a while, when Gwen suddenly fell in my lap.

"G-Gwen?!" I whisper. She then turns around and I see her eyes are closed. She fell asleep! I laugh a bit. Her hair looks so soft. I start stroking it.

"N-Nathaniel.." She mumbles.

"Oh, I-I'm sorry." I stop touching her hair. Yet she still mumbles my 's, she's DREAMING about me?I sigh, she's so pretty.

"Huh? What?" Gwen suddenly gets up. "Oh, Nathaniel, I was SLEEPING on you. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean-"

"It's okay, Gwen!" I laugh a bit. Gwen blushes and gets up.

"I'm sorry for putting all the 'Ken' stuff on you. You're such a good friend. Thank you." Gwen hugs me.

Wait a second. FRIEND!?

At lunch I told Castiel what happened.

"Dude, you just got friendzoned." Castiel said, laughing

"What?"

"There are zones, bud. Stranger Zone, Friend Zone, Boyfriend"

"Do I have a chance?"

"There's two ways. You can buck up and tell her you like her. Or you can take things slow."

"Second choice."

"Gosh, can you be any less of a man, Princess?"

"S-shut up, Castiel."

"Watch what you say, Princess! If you're too mean to me I might steal Gwen away from is kinda cute." Castiel winked then ran off.

"Castiel!" I shouted. Just then, Gwen walked up to me giggling. "Hey what are you laughing about?"

"Ha, seeing you and Castiel fight is adorable. It's like a cat and dog!" She straightened my tie.

"Hey, it's not that cute. Castiel's a meanie." I say like a child.

"You know, I'm glad you and Castiel are friends!"

"Why is that?" I raise my eyebrows.

"It means your expanding your horizons of friends! You can't be a loner baboon when there are flocks of friendly baboons around."

"You say the weirdest things Gwen!" I laughed.

"But that's what makes me unique, right?" She took my wrist.

"Uh, Gwen, w-where are we going?" I said, she was so fast I was tripping over myself trying to keep up.

"What, slow poke? I can't hear you! You're too slow!" Gwen shouted over her shoulder.

"Gwen, being slow has nothing to do with hearing!" Yet as I said that, I sped up.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAH" Gwen was laughing hysterically. "You'll never beat me!"

"Loser has to pay for food!" I yelled, passing her.

"Grrr!" She increased her speed too. Me and her were side by side when I playfully shoved her.

"Ahh!" She wasn't expecting that and fell to the ground.

"Gwen?!" I slowed myself and ran back to her. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, really Nathaniel!" She smiled but I could see tears lining her eyes.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't I didn't-" I started to freak out when Gwen hugged me.

"It's okay Nathaniel, it's not your fault." She said. "But you are treating me to lunch again."

I started to laugh and I helped Gwen up. "Sure Gwen! Anything you want!" I smiled

"Thanks, Nathaniel."